KINDELAN, JosephThe Trackman's Helper. A Pocket Companion For the Track Foremen Generally. It Treats on More than 300 Different Subjects Relating to Track Work with Rules, Tables and Illustrations. As a Book of Reference for Section Foremen is Superior to any Book heretofore Published Mitchell, Dakota: Joseph Kindelan, Roadmaster / The Mitchell Printing Co.. (1888). First. First edition. Small octavo. 299pp.; 5pp. of ads. Red paper gilt over boards. Small publisher's label front pastedown, modest rubbing at the extremities, a nice, very good copy. OCLC locates about six copies of the Dakota edition over two records. .

POMOLOGY & HORTICULTURE - Rochester Lithographing CoThe Nurseryman's Specimen Book of American Fruits, Flowers, Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Roses &c. Rochester Lithographing Company, successors to D. M. Dewey's American Fruit & Flower Plates . Rochester Lithographing Company, Rochester 1888 - (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches). Chromolithographed title, 53 chromolithographed plates. Some staining. Contemporary wallet-style calf, rebacked. Housed in a cloth chemise and morocco backed slipcase. Provenance: William Morton & Son, Galena Indiana (name in gilt on flap of binding) A fine "tree-peddler's" sample book with a large range of images of various varieties of fruit, flowering plants and trees available This sample book includes a wide variety of plants, including roses and other flowering plants, trees and shrubs and a plethora of fruits, including apples, pears, berries, grapes, cherries, etc. "From the 1850s, as Rochester [N.Y.] became an important centre of nursery gardening, another local industry grew up to provide illustrations of fruit, flowers, shrubs, trees, selections of which were used as catalogues by travelling 'tree peddlers' who sold plants from the nurseries they represented to farmers and gardeners in the territories they visited. The earliest illustrations of this kind were watercolours copied by local artists, but soon their production was made more efficient by the use of stencils to provide theorem paintings of flowers and fruit. Printed outlines or lithographs were also coloured by hand until chromolithographs added colour to the basic process, though even then they were often finished by hand." (Oak Spring Pomona, p.167). The plates in the present sample book are by the Rochester Lithographing Company who were "in the nurserymen's plate business by 1888. Beginning that year and continuing into the twentieth century, [the firm]. is listed in the city directories under both 'Fruit Plates' and 'Nurserymen's Plates'" (Kabelac). Cf. Karl Sanford Kabelac 'Nineteenth-Century Rochester Fruit and Flower Plates' in The University of Rochester Library Bulletin (1982) vol. XXXV, pp. 93-114; cf. Sandra Raphael, An Oak Spring Pomona, 65. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

[Slave Trade].Africa. No. 7 (1888). Reports on Slave Trade on the East Coast of Africa: 1887-88. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty. November 1888. [C.-5578]. London, printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office, by Harrison and Sons, 1888. 1888. Folio. IV, 87, (1) pp. Sewn, with remains of former spine. Rare British parliamentary papers and correspondence with local agents and officers on the slave trade, including reports of naval battles with dhows (often flying false French colours) between the east coast of Africa and Jeddah, as well as a report on British activity in the Arabian Gulf which halted the slave trade on the northern shore of the Peninsula: "the strict blockade which has been established on the Arabian coast during the past two seasons has to a great extent stopped the transport of cargoes of slaves in large numbers from Africa to the Arabian coast and the Persian Gulf" (p. 3). - A good copy. Not in Bennett, but cf. his no. 519, noting Parliamentary Paper C.-5575, possibly in error.

LAPIERRE, AlfredNouveau Plan de la Ville de Bordeaux A L'Usage des Promeneurs Par Alfred Lapierre [with] Tableau des Voies de la Ville de Bordeaux et de la Banlieue. Feret & Fils, 1888 - An attractive plan of Bordeaux Lithographed map with original full colour, dissected and laid on linen, folding into original red cloth covers, lettered and tooled in gilt [with] accompanying printed booklet, some black and red ink staining to front cover. A map of the city of Bordeaux. Bordeaux had enjoyed an architectural renaissance over the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, fuelled by wine exports. The map was made thirty years after the first official classification of Bordeaux wines, initiated by the Emperor Napoleon III, and viniculture remained the economic backbone of the region. The accompanying booklet contains a list of street names both in Bordeaux and in the suburbs and their location on the map, a list of industrial and government buildings, and adverts for local businesses. 565 by 710mm. (22.25 by 28 inches).

Alcott, LouisaA Garland for Girls Roberts Bros., Boston, 1888 - First Edition first state with 22pp ads at rear. A Fine copy in original green cloth, blocked and lettered in black and gilt, bird-and-flower patterned endpapers, 22pp. advertisements at the end (in first state). Rare in this collector's condition. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

Inglis, Hon. James.Tent Life in Tiger Land and Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier. Hutchison., Sydney. 1888 - xxiv, 690pp, chromos. 'Being Twelve Years' Sporting Reminiscenes of a Pioneer Planter in an Indian Frontier District.' 'Sport and Work' was originally published in 1878 under the pseudonym 'Maori' so appears here as a second edition with 'Tent Life' as a first edition. Cloth is rubbed and worn, eps cracked but holding, text block and illustrations are generally clean. Inscription reads: 'To W L McNeill Esq with the Compts & food wishes of "Maori" Sydney N.S.W. James Inglis 15/10/92' 2kg Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

Hamersly, Thomas H. S.Complete General Army Register of the United States of America, from the Time of the Revolutionary War to the Present Time. T.H.S. Hamersly, Publisher 1888 - 1888. Rebound with 3/4 leather. Marbled page edges. A very large and scarce volume. Light wear to covers. Text clean and unmarked. The binding is tight and square. Your Satisfaction is Guaranteed! [Attributes: Hard Cover]

Hamley, Sir Edward Bruce. (1824-1893). British general and literary figureAUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ON HOUSE OF COMMONS LETTERHEAD, and manuscript leaf from his novel "Lady Lee's Widowhood" [London, U.K.]: 22 June 1888.. 1888.. Very good. - Letter: small octavo [7-3/8 inches high by 4-3/4 inches wide]. 128 words penned in black ink on all 4 sides of a folded, 4-sided sheet of House of Commons letterhead with the Commons seal at the top of the first side. Signed "Yours sincerely / Edward Hamley". There is occasional very light foxing to the letterhead & 2 pieces of mounting tape adhere to the right margin of the 4th side where the letter has been removed from an album. Folded once for mailing. Very good.<p>Manuscript leaf: small quarto [9 inches high by 7 inches wide]. 83 words penned in black ink on one side of a sheet of cream watermarked paper. Folded 3 times with slight darkening down the top end of 1 vertical fold. 2 small pieces of tape adhere to the verso of the sheet where it has been removed from an album. Very good. <p>The letter addressed to "My dear Mrs. Ford" expresses his regret that he missed her when he called on her. He congratulates her on becoming "the Mistress of Pencarrow", her family's estate and her childhood home. He goes on to complain about the House of Commons workload, though "we are not quite such slaves as we were last year...." <p>The manuscript leaf is from Hamley's novel "Lady Lee's Widowhood" and is headed "Chap. II." The page, which ends in mid-sentence describes the morning toiletries of two women characters. The first sentence of the extract reads: "Rosa, constitutionally an early riser, used to be always up before Orelia in the morning, until the latter took it into her head to have a shower-bath fitted up in the closet that opened from their room...."<p>Sir Edward Bruce Hamley [1824-1893] served in the Crimean War. He was professor of military history at the Staff College, Sandhurst from 1858 to 1877 and was Commandant of the College from 1870-1877. He was chief of the commission for the delimitation of the Balkan and Armenian frontiers [1879-80] and commanded a division in the Egyptian war of 1882. He was promoted to General in 1890. Hamley was Member of Parliament for Birkenhead from 1885 until his death in 1893.<p>In addition to works on the Crimean War and his military manual "The Operations of War", Hamley was a short-story writer and poet, a translator of French verse, and the author of a novel "Lady Lee's Widowhood". He was a valued contributor to Blackwood's Magazine, wherein the novel first appeared in 1853. It was subsequently published in two volumes by William Blackwood and Sons in 1854. [Sadleir 1103; Wolff 2949].<p>Both the letter and the manuscript come from the autograph collection of Mrs. Mary Ford, widow of Richard Ford who wrote the popular "Handbook for Travellers in Spain". The autograph collection [known as the Pencarrow Collection] was formed from the 1850s onwards, largely by Mary Ford in her long period of widowhood.

FORNEY, MATTHIAS N.THE CAR-BUILDER'S DICTIONARY: AN ILLUSTRATED VOCABULARY OF TERMS WHICH DESIGNATE AMERICAN RAILROAD CARS, THEIR PARTS AND ATTACHMENTS. COMPILED FOR THE MASTER CAR-BUILDERS' ASSOCIATION New York: The Railroad Gazette, 1888., 1888.. First edition. Revised and enlarged edition. First edition published in January, 1880. Inked signature of A. E. Baker of Colorado on the front fly leaf and dated by him on April 24,1889. Oblong 8vo. Original dark green cloth with illustration and titles stamped in gold gilt on the front cover and spine, and design on front and rear covers stamped in blind, decorated front endpapers, xii, 203 numbered pages of dictionary of car-builders' terms, plus 358 unnumbered pages with 2188 figures, diagrams, and illustrations of cars and their parts, plus 28 numbered pages of advertisements in the rear to include the rear fly leaf and pastedown sheet. Preface to the first edition, preface to the revised edition, directions for using the car-builder's dictionary,double column, illustrated, frontispiece (Bay window Parlor car, Pennsylvania Railroad), advertisements. This revised and enlarged edition has the number of engravings increased from 811 in the original first edition to 2,188. All drawings that appeared in the previous edition also appear in this edition, but 156 of the 811 engravings have been made over to obtain larger or better views. The book is divided into essentially six classifications including: Cars, Car-Bodies, Car-Body Details, Furnishings, Trucks, and Truck Details. The book was published to provide Mechanical Engineers and train manufacturing workers with invaluable information for each train car and its components. Professionally rebacked with original spine laid-down for a very good, tight copy of a very desirable and elusive manual.

[Trade Catalogue] Reiniger [E. M.], [M.] Gebbert & [K. F.] SchallKatalog der physik.-mechan. WerkstÃ¤tten Reiniger, Gebbert & Schall.UniversitÃ¤ts-Mechaniker Erlangen (Bayern). Schlossplatz 3. [Illustrated trade catalogue]. Erlangen, Reiniger et al., 1888. 4to (27.1 x 19.5 cm). 75 pp. (including index). Contemporary red, bllindstamped cloth; front board printed in black and gilt, rear board with black printed vignette. Patterned endpapers. Text pages printed in red and black. l A sumptuously bound trade catalogue. It is likely that this was a special copy: in the top margin, the following was written in a neat hand: "Kgl. Hoheit Herzog Dr Carl Theodor in Bayern in tiefsten Ergebenheit gewidmet...". The firm was founded by Erwin Moritz Reiniger (1854-1909), Max Gebbert (1856-1907) and Karl Friedrich Schall (1859-1925), and grew to an international business with offices in Stuttgart and New York. After the crash of 1923 it was bought by Siemens. According to the title page, the firm had as "SpecialitÃ¤t: Elektrisch-medizinische Apparate und Instrumente". This is amply show on the following pages, which contain steel-engravings of various medical devices, usually with electrical components. A very beautiful, and clean copy. Very rare.

Sheridan, Philip H.Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan New York: Charles L. Webster and Company 1888 - Two volumes (complete), 8vo., green cloth lettered in gilt with gilt illustrations on the front covers; extremities rubbed, gilt lettering and illustrations bright. First edition, with steel-engraved portrait frontispieces, numerous plates, and three fold-out maps maps. A presentation copy, inscribed: "Christmas present to Henry W. Jessup from his friend Noah Davis, 1895," on the half-title page. The Republican statesman Noah Davis served on the New York Supreme Court, was elected to Congress, and was appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant as U. S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. The recipient, Henry Wynans Jessup, a professor of law at New York University, published numerous treatises on the law. His son, Philip C. Jessup, who served as a judge on the International Court of Justice at The Hague, was credited with playing a major role in ending the Soviet blockade of West Berlin. A compelling presentation copy with a distinguished provenance. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

VariousReports of the Meetings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1887-98 1888 Book. VERY GOOD INDEED. Hardcover. The reports of the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science from 1887 to 1898, missing the year 1892, attractively bound in half calf. The British Association for the Advancement of Science was founded in 1831 by Reverend William Harcourt, following some dissatisfaction with the conservative ethos of the Royal Society. It was modelled on the German Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Artze. The first meeting was held at York, with numerous scientific papers being presented in the following days. From that time an annual meeting was held at a different place, chosen during the previous meeting. These summaries of the meetings, along with the scientific papers presented and the topics of seminars and lectures etc. , were generally published the following year. Included are numeroustables, diagrams, and drawings. Many tables et alia are fold-outs. At the rear of each volume is a separately paginated List of Officers, Council, and Members. The main body of each volume reproduces the huge variety of papers and hypotheses presented at the meetings. An unparalled collation of late 19th century science, these work allow the reader to follow the development of scientific thinking at what was the contemporary cutting edge. Collated: no precise collations available but appears complete. Condition: In half calf with gilt titles and detailing to the spines. The 1896 volume has the original cloth covers bound in at the back. Externally the volumes are smart, though rubbed at the extremities and with some fading to the spines. The 1893 and 1891 volumes have some marking to the boards. All volumes have a personal bookplate to the front pastedown. Internally, all volumes are very mildly age-toned but otherwise generally clean. Generally firmly bound. Overall: VERY GOOD INDEED.

Chambers's Encyclopedia, A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People, William & Robert Chambers Chambers's Encyclopedia, A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People, William & Robert Chambers. Band 1-10, London und Edinburgh, 1888-92
"Chamberss Encyclopaedia, British encyclopaedia published in Oxford, Eng., and named after its original publishers, Robert and William Chambers. The first edition in 10 volumes (1859-68) was based on a translation of the 10th edition of the German Konversations-Lexikon (now Brockhaus Enzyklopädie). Chamberss Encyclopaedia is not to be confused with the Cyclopaedia of Ephraim Chambers. The modern Chamberss appeared as a 15-volume set in 1950. The scope of the encyclopaedia is international, but its emphasis is primarily British, as are the scholarly contributors." Chambers's Encyclopaedia. (2016). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved from http://www.britannica.com/topic/Chamberss-Encyclopaedia

Burnett, Frances HodgsonEditha's Burglar Jordan, Marsh & Company, Boston - 1888. First edition, first issue. Thin square octavo mustard pictorial cloth stamped in black and gilt. Illustrated with 14 full-page b/w plates by Henry Sandham. A very fine copy in the original publisher's DUST JACKET. Jacket is very good with chipping to the spine ends and corners, but with no loss of text. Laid in is a charming three-page ALS from Burnett making elaborate arrangements for a luncheon guest to be picked up at a train station and brought to her house. A wonderful survival, rare in the dust jacket. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

WASHINGTON - SEATTLE - PANORAMIC VIEW)The West Shore. An Illustrated Western Magazine. L. Samuel. Portland, OR. 04- 1888. - April, 1888 complete issue of this magazine, 170-222pp plus ads, centrefold panoramic lithograph view (with illustrations on verso), two double-sided illustrations (all two-color lithographs) plus black and white illustrated advertisements, 11 x 8 1/2 inches, paper wrappers as issued. Wear and soiling to covers, text block is loose within covers, spine is split with a little paper loss, there is a soft crease to the last pages of the text block, not affecting the images, creasing to the tip of the top right corner of the first few pages. The centrefold illustration of Seattle is tipped in (no binding holes). This is the Seattle issue with a beautiful double page bird's eye view of the waterfront and city of Seattle. Other images are: "Seattle-Junction of Mill, Front, Commercial & James Sts.", with "Fry's Opera House" and "Seattle-Business Blocks" on verso; "Seattle-Front St. South from Columbia St." and "Seattle-Business Blocks" on verso of bird's eye view;, "Seattle-Occidental Hotel" with "Seattle - The Bay from the Railroad Depot" on verso. Includes an extensive article on Seattle, the Queen City, plus articles on Southern Oregon's Healthfulness, Industries of Albany etc. This seldom seen magazine from the Pacific Northwest evolved from a literary journal in the 1870s into a booster magazine for settlement in the area, and is a rare source for 19th century views of the Pacific Northwest. [Attributes: Soft Cover]

ARTGreat Modern Painters 1888 - (ART). The Great Modern Painters. English, French, German, etc. Medalists of Successive Universal Expositions. Texts by the Principal Art-Critics. Paris: Goupil, 1884. Two volumes bound in eight. Large folio (12 by 19 inches), original printed paper-covered boards with brown cloth spines. $1650."Amateur's edition,"&#157; number 350 of 850 copies printed on French vellum paper, with 120 photogravures and hundreds of in-text illustrations.Covers the works of 24 artists active in the late 19th century, including Baudry, Bonnat, Gerome, Meissonier, Boulanger, Bonheur, Millais, and Bouguereau. Text and plates fine, faint soiling to a few of the original front boards. A magnificent production. [Attributes: Hard Cover]